Peter Dutton’s energy policy will blow Australia’s greenhouse gas budget and reignite Australia’s climate wars.
The opposition’s nuclear energy plans would force Australia to fall massively short of the nation’s emissions target and generate more than 2 billion tonnes of extra greenhouse gas by 2050, breaking Australia’s commitment to the Paris Agreement.
Dutton has said the Coalition would boost the role of gas power to fill gaps in the energy grid until his reactors are built, and would ensure coal plants are not shut before their energy supply is replaced.This increased reliance on fossil fuels would generate 2.3 billion tonnes more greenhouse emissions compared to the Albanese government’s climate policy. That’s more than five years’ worth of Australia’s annual emissions, which were 433 million tonnes in 2023.
Currently, 194 nations are signatories to this deal, including all developed nations and Australia’s major trade and security partners – the US, UK, Japan, Korea, China and India. However, the Australian Industry Group, representing the nation’s manufacturers, said interim targets like the 2030 goal “don’t mean much if we’re not going to reach them”.
Opposition Climate Change spokesman Ted O’ Brien rejected the department’s projections and said the government’s renewable goals were unachievable.“We will not accept from Labor an ongoing dishonesty trying to tell the Australian people that everything’s going well,” he said. O’Brien also rejected the analysis of emissions under the opposition’s nuclear policy, arguing it did not account for the slow renewables rollout.
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